The Log Letters with Kip McCabe on drums.

A recession in 2008 is far from inevitable. It will depend a lot on growth overseas, consumer spending (which is thus far better than expected this holiday season), and unemployment. The only major investment bank, Morgan Stanley, to forecast a 2008 recession (and a mild one at that) seems to be bac...

Rick, I am in the mortgage business, and you are doing an excellent job covering this story. This problem is far from contained, and I expect it will only get worse in the years to come. This is not a subprime problem as much as it was, and still is, a general problem in analyzing credit risk couple...

Hey, does anybody want to help repopulate Lincoln park with cicadas? I'm thinking we get a few F150's and drive out to some cook county forest preserve, load 'em up, and then drive on down to Fullerton and the lake. This could be our time! Right here! Bfields, I'm in on this idea, though on a sligh...

With a kerble yell,
she cried more, more, more.

I knew I haven't been reading enough lately, which makes it more difficult to be original.

Just found this: m And though it will never be as good as actually having been there, let it serve as a self-endorsement to see them if they come around your town. Oh me, oh my, what a band. I think this is what I was waiting for when I was told of the idea of Tortoise, but when I finally heard thei...

Saw something good today on Pitchfork.com: 71407BX000D1022. No, wait, I didn't see that. That was a lazy cut-and-paste mistake. I saw this instead: m A band playing music inside a tiny mirrored cube spinning in space? So good. Cannot wait to see them at the end of the month at the Empty Bottle. Hope...

Was he the boss? Or was it Angela? Were these questions ever answered? Can they be?

A documetary series from the Eighties, "Voices & Visions" is very good. It spotlights 13 American poets, most from the first half of the 20th Century. If your PBS affiliate does not still air them, then I am fairly certain you can buy them on DVD.

El Protoolio, A large down payment such as 25% usually offsets bad credit scores/history when obtaining a mortgage. One of the keys to understanding how to obtain a mortgage is empathizing with mortgage lenders. You need to understand the problems caused by a first-time default (meaning: the borrowe...